Sky Sports advert sums up Liverpool dominance over Man United after embarrassing five-year wait
The biggest indication of Liverpool's recent dominance over Manchester United has been the pre-match advertisements building up to the most watched club fixture in football.
While broadcasters Sky Sports have been spoilt for choice for quick cut-aways of Liverpool celebrations in recent times - be it Mohamed Salah and Alisson Becker, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz or even Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino - the attempt at balancing the redress with United images has left those tasked with slim pickings only.
United's last goal at Anfield came via Jesse Lingard in a 3-1 defeat over five years ago. It was December 2018 and was the last match Jose Mourinho took charge of as United manager. It's been a real tale of woe for the Red Devils at Anfield since they pilfered a 1-0 win in Jurgen Klopp's first taste of the fixture, which came eight years ago next month when Louis van Gaal was manager.
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Back then, Klopp was just a handful of months into the job and had Mamadou Sakho partnering Kolo Toure in defence before bringing on Steven Caulker as an emergency, makeshift striker. It's fair to say a lot has changed since then and not just with regards to the power shift between the two most successful clubs in English football. Since then, Liverpool's main Manchester rivals have become Man City and there can surely be no greater ignominy from a United perspective.
Rarely has the gap been this evident and obvious, certainly in the Premier League era and most definitely not in favour of Liverpool, whose efforts to match their historic enemy at the top of the game this century
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